The Van Dwellers

The Van Dwellers
A Strenuous Quest for a Home

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The Van Dwellers by Albert Bigelow Paine

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1901

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A Strenuous Quest for a Home

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"Too true to life to be classed with fiction."--Detroit Free Press"Told in a delicious vein of humor."--Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.

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walked back and forth in the semi-light of our empty little place and said how nice it was, and where we should set the furniture and hang the pictures: and stepped off the size of the rooms that all put together were not so big as had been our one big sitting-room in the West.

As for the Precious Ones, they were wildly happy. They had never had a real playhouse before, big enough to live in, and this was quite in accordance with their ideals. They were "visiting" and "keeping store" and "cooking," and quarreling, and having a perfectly beautiful time with their two disreputable dolls, utterly regardless of the shadow of foreboding and desolation that grew ever thicker as the hours passed, while the sun slipped down behind the steep stone-battlemented park opposite, and brought no matting, no furniture, no anything that would make our little nest habitable for the swiftly coming night.

But when it became too dark for them to see to play, they came clamorously out to where we stood on the doorst

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